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Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… while living in Southern California during South Africa’s apartheid. In order to appropriately study a cultural figure … the institution of racial…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… and broadly histories of art and culture both under apartheid, as well as in the post-apartheid. Outside of his academic pursuits, he is an avid … notions…
ArticlePoqo
… as well as Transkei chiefs (read as collaborators with the apartheid regime) and their followers. The structure and … powerful as a movement sowing mass…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… became the hero of millions of Africans who rejected apartheid. At Wentworth, Natal University’s medical school … hostility towards Black leaders from…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… a level of consciousness about the plight of Blacks in apartheid South Africa that could not be ignored. Contrary to …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… no way be described as a reaction against the Government's apartheid policy and has nothing to do with passes. Such … They call upon the Government to…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… After the end of apartheid, as well as the release of political prisoners in … the gross human rights violations in the wider context of apartheid which…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… reform of the Bantu school system’. In 1953, prior to the apartheid government’s Bantu Education Act, 90% of black … on Bantu Education increased from the…
ArticleBlack Sash
… "The Black Sash", an organisation of white women against Apartheid Laws, demonstrated, often on a daily basis, in … that she used as a platform to challenge…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… – all showed up to take part in the resistance against apartheid. The 1956 Women’s March played a vital role in the women becoming more visible participants…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… out of the organisation in 1956 because of its policy of apartheid. 1995 14 February, the Constitutional Court is … the end of their international sports…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… National Congress (ANC) women’s unit commissar turned apartheid killer, Xolelwa Sosha, disappeared. Mose and Sosha … Ntsebeza D. B. (2001). Unfinished…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… S Reddy 's, (Director of the United Nations Centre against Apartheid and author) quotes from an interview with Thambi …
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
… for relevant South African themed theatre, which defied apartheid laws. It was initially housed in Observatory, Cape …
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… racial segregation in Cape Town and later against apartheid. Thus, Cape Town has and continues to occupy centre …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… of effective bargaining power and paid leave. Until the apartheid era, this colonial system of domestic work prevailed [xix] . Apartheid History A girl and…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… that ‘Bantu peoples’ were primitive. [7] In the earlier apartheid period, c. 1960, ‘Bantu’ replaced the word 'Native' … word became despised by Africans as…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… liberation from self-inflicted oppression as well as apartheid-imposed oppression. The BC movement monopolized on … Black Consciousness ideology. These plays…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… resulted in what has become a prototypical model of the 'apartheid city' or 'the segregated city'. [PAGEBREAK] … of Europeans, as well as persons of mixed…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… countries and individuals who were sympathetic to the anti-apartheid cause. Towards the end of the decade, the ANC held … Congress (PAC) take up anti-pass…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… wedding. In 1997 South Africa was emerging from the racist apartheid system, and was celebrating its own “wedding” … across the colour bar after democratic…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was …
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will encourage individuals … both of the archive as well as personal…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Eiselen is made Secretary of Native Affairs. 1950-52 Six apartheid laws are passed: the Group Areas Act (1950), the … to Meadowlands. The “Defiance Campaign”…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… to ensure inclusivity during the transition period from apartheid to democracy , 1990 - 1994. The mission of the … violations and atrocities had been…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… and Whites went to prison in opposition to the policies of apartheid and segregation. The meeting of the National Joint … While the Native Representative…
Liberation
… to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in … in 1994.) The challenge to undo…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… focusing on three historical periods: colonialism, the apartheid era of segregation, and after democratization. The … settlers and their administrations,…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political activists were forced operate … broken. A new approach for confronting…